First, it said, jobs in Ghana are concentrated and affective to the atomic advantageous sectors (personal services, agriculture, broad and retail, and manufacturing)
Second, it added, Ghana underexploits the factors favorable to structural transformation: the affection of institutions is deteriorating, the low about-face of exports banned the allowances of barter openness, the country lacks infrastructure, animal basic is moderately developed, and urbanization has bootless to accompany about the accepted structural transformation
"Third, the country faces bottlenecks affiliated to the advantage of the breezy sector, the aerial vulnerability to altitude change, the bound admission and aerial amount of credit, and the aerial allotment of adolescent NEET," it said
The address adumbrated that aback the 1990s, Ghana has accomplished acceptable bread-and-butter growth, but this advance has been associated with anemic structural transformation and afresh has become unstable
The address said Ghana confused from low-income to lower middle-income country cachet in 2010, acknowledgment to oil assembly and complete and abiding policies
The post-COVID-19 bread-and-butter accretion was weak, with absolute GDP advance abstinent to 3.8 percent in 2022, from 5.1 percent in 2021, and estimated at 2.9 percent in 2023, primarily due to macroeconomic instability, abbreviating all-around banking conditions, and the spillover furnishings of assorted shocks, it said
These shocks led to a aciculate abrasion of the Cedi and a debt crisis in December 2022, ot added
The address appear on Wednesday, July 31 empiric that banking needs for structural transformation in Ghana are huge but aural reach
To advance its structural change and bolt up with the best assuming developing countries, it said, Ghana needs to activate USD 4.87 billion per year, until 2030, for the Acceptable Development Goals (SDGs); and 0.85 billion, until 2063, for the African Union (UA) 2063 Agenda, of which the country has alone managed to activate a third. Ghana charge admission its tax-to-GDP arrangement by 3.8 allotment credibility for SDGs and by 0.7 for AU 2023 Agenda and admeasure added assets to aerial charge sectors (education and energy)
"A added business-friendly ambiance to activate advance (domestic/foreign) in key sectors for structural transformation and a articular urbanization framework could advice advance the process
"Ghana charge accompany reforms aimed at deepening macroeconomic adherence and acknowledging structural transformation efforts. On the one hand, monetary, bread-and-butter and barter amount behavior charge be aggressive to added ascendancy aggrandizement by bringing it aback appear its target, abate burden on barter ante (more stability), abate the accessible arrears by acumen accessible spending (reduce non-productive expenditure) and mobilizing added centralized resources, and aesthetic across-the-board and acceptable growth
"On the added hand, key reforms should accommodate convalescent allocation and sequencing of accessible area development initiatives in band with the country's budgetary position; fast cutting the advancing debt restructuring, acceptable ambit for concessional finance, and deepening banking markets to admission admission to affordable credit; and deepening stakeholder assurance and allocation of development abetment to aerate synergies and impact." Read the abounding address here